Point Break (1991)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1991
	Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty)
	Actors: Patrick Swayze (Ghost), Keanu Reeves (The Matrix 1-3, Man of Tai Chi), Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon, Predator 2)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 29.04.2017, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Young, ambitious and arrogant FBI agent Johnny Utah (Reeves) decides to tackle the unsolved case of serial bank robbers in Los Angeles. His new partner Pappas (Busey) has a theory that the gang are surfers.
Review: A classic of my teenage years, and again something that only the 90's could have brought to light. In my memory it was the story of this FBI agent that learns to love surf while solving a bank robbery case. Seen with my more adult eyes I could find more layers to this apparently simple story. The surf and rebellion scenes are still fun to watch, but this time I was more interested by the conflict in Johnny Utah played by Keanu Reeves a bit inexpressive as usual but quite fit in this role in fact. And this conflict leads to decisions that are ambiguous: good, bad, friendship, loyalty... are values that come into play in the second act. The audience gets sad when one dies, cop or robber, or when lies are revealed because they were told under external constrains. The movie may have aged a little, it is longer than I remembered and the action scenes are not really top-notch (the surf scenes are more poetry and feeling than action) but that all helps giving its special cachet to the movie. From what I read, this is something that the 2015 remake totally failed to achieve but I had easily predicted that.
Rating: 6 /10